Application of a geographic model with climate information to calculate the water balance of the Marina Baja area of Alicante

Authors

  • Benito Zaragozí Zaragozí Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía
  • Alfredo Ramón Morte Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía
  • Jorge Olcina Cantos Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía

Abstract

This paper discusses new trends in the creation and management of geographic information for the development of inductive models based entirely on geodatabases. These models enable the integration of large volumes of data with heterogeneous characteristics, which is of an enormous technical and methodological complexity. We propose a methodology to determine the distribution of natural water resources in a study area and derive numerous geospatial layers that can be incorporated into these “data-hungry” models. The Marina Baja is the study area chosen to apply this methodology. An estimation of the spatial water balance is presented using statistical tools, geostatistics and geographic information systems. Finally, the layers generated (84) have been validated, thus demonstrating that the creation of such layers allows for a convenient degree of automation that permits them to be incorporated into broader data mining studies.

Keywords

climate models, geographic information systems, data mining, water balance, Marina Baja

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.250

Published

2016-01-28

How to Cite

Zaragozí Zaragozí, B., Ramón Morte, A., & Olcina Cantos, J. (2016). Application of a geographic model with climate information to calculate the water balance of the Marina Baja area of Alicante. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 62(1), 207–233. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.250

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